Take a look on the list archives. I saw this subject circulating before.
There's an interesting article about distributed session tracking in web
farms that use RDBMS and is very good (despite the fact it deals with ASP,
but that's not relevant).
I saw the reference to the article on that thread on the list.
Wellington
-----Original Message-----
From: Aumann, Shad
To: TomcatUser Mailing List (E-mail)
Sent: 29/11/00 20.44
Subject: Distributed session tracking?
Hello,
If I wanted to run multiple web servers - each running Apache/Tomcat -
in a
load-balancing configuration, how can I make it so that the session
tracking
on each installation of Tomcat is available to whatever web server gets
the
client's request?
I realize that I could just do "first hit" load balancing, and then keep
the
client on the same web server that they started with.
But, I'd rather have a web server "farm", and be able to send the
requests
to the server with the lowest load.
Does Apache/Tomcat have any provisions for automatically supporting this
kind of distributed session tracking?
I'm about to implement it myself, using the RDBMS as the location of all
of
the shared session information for each of the web servers to utilize.
Does
anyone have a better idea?
Shad
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Shad J. Aumann
Senior Software Engineer
Anteon
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